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Dr. F. M. Hexamer — If we try to speak words of consolation to 

 his family, and to those who know him here, what can we say to 

 those thousands and hundreds of thousands to whom he has minis- 

 tered as an unknown friend ? He did, unknown to most, a class of 

 work which he imbued with a high moral tone. Some of his papers 

 have not been excelled. There are those, as I know from personal 

 knowledge, who have been so helped by his writings, that they will 

 almost revere his memory. 



Dr. J. V. O. Smith — On no former occasion have I felt a deeper 

 emotion than I do now on this occasion. We mourn the loss of a 

 member of this Club who was dear to us. This draped and empty 

 chamber suggests thoughts that are sad indeed. Others have spoken 

 of his official influence and character. I can speak of my intimate 

 acquaintance with him in various explorations and journeys, and as 

 dwelling in the same house with him. I knew of his strict upright- 

 ness and his high character ; I also knew what the high ambition of 

 his life was. It was to help to improve the people, and develop the 

 vast agricultural interests of this country. In the pursuit of this he 

 spared no labor, and devoted his life. During the travels I made 

 with him over the Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific, coast his 

 thoughts were continually on this. He was also an excellent father. 

 The progress of his children's studies was constantly an object of 

 solicitude with him. He was a good man, and his life was one 

 which gave no terrors to death, for he had lived so that he had hopes 

 beyond the grave. 



Professor J. A. Xash — The occasion is full of sorrow ; and yet in 

 the termination of such a life there is something to mitigate grief, 

 and even to create joy : it is, that with our departed associate all is 

 well. We bemoan his loss; we cannot bemoan his lot. We can 

 sympathize with his wife and children, and for their sake and our 

 own we mourn, but not for his. With him it is well. He has gone 

 to reap the reward of a pious, earnest and highly useful life. Mr. 

 Lyman was an honest, conscientious, upright man. His constant 

 effort was to circulate sound instruction and important information to 

 the great agricultural community of the whole country. In this he 

 succeeded admirably. I have never known a man who guarded him- 

 self so strongly, and I might almost add so successfully, against 

 writing or uttering a word that could be tortured into an error to 

 mislead the farmer. In Mr. Lyman the whole farming community 

 have lost a most valuable friend and helper — a faithful, earnest and 



